Thanks, we'll be sure to watch this thread and keep your comments and suggestions in mind for future updates!
Some comments:
- Under stats, Checker Play Skill Percentage is a good indicator of how well you're playing. It doesn't take into account forced moves or hints. Thus, it only looks at the unforced moves you make without hints and will give a good indication of how well you're moving (0%: worst moves, 100%: best moves, or somewhere in between).
- Putting the board in portrait mode would actually make the points thinner (less wide) and thus the checkers smaller (since they are circles). Also, does Posimotion's backgammon have an option for or mode with larger checkers? In their screenshots on iTunes, their checkers are smaller than ours, 22 pixels wide (theirs) vs. 23 pixels wide (ours).
- When tapping in Backgammon NJ, you don't actually have to tap on the checkers themselves. You can tap anywhere on a point to select both checkers and points to move to. There's also some leeway as to where you can tap. This leeway is about the width of one extra point on each side, depending on whether there are other possible valid selection points nearby. We thought about making this leeway the width of two points in v1.2 but took that out at the last minute because we thought it might be confusing if tapping too far away selected things. But we can look into putting it back if you think it would help.